Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet". [1]
Life
Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya. [2] He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi [3] from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association. [4]
Works
- Juices, London (1970) [2]
- Silent Voices, London (1972) [2]
- Soft Corals, London (1973) [2]
- "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.
References
- ^ Knight, Elisabeth (1986). "Kenya". In Gérard, Albert S. (ed.). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins. pp. 887–921. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3.
- ^ a b c d "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.
- ^ Profile at African Poetry Review.
- ^ Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5. OCLC 1062304793. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
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